Anyone have time to catch me up on the meta?

Onimus Terlain·3/9/2015, 11:51:15 AM·2 votes·783 views

I haven't played a game of League of Legends since October of 2014. I was traveling for work since July, and after months of trying to find a hotel with good enough internet to play, I decided to just stop playing for a little while.

Before I stopped, I was primarily a jungler. And I can see that the scene has changed drastically since then (Nidalee jungle? What is this madness?)

Well, I'm done traveling now and looking to get back into League, at least casually.

Does anyone have time to kind of bullet point what has happened in season 5 so far, in terms of meta shifts and viability of champions?

Are tanks still useless? Has anything changed for the jungle? New characters that I'll be seeing a lot of, that have come out since last September?

I'd greatly appreciate anyone updating me on all that.

Thank you!

9 Comments

Rikari3/9/2015, 12:14:35 PM1 votes

High Mobility,High Damage. Zed Leblanc LeeSin Ahri Nidalee assassin mid,ranged top,Vi/j4/Rek'Sai/Nid/Lee Sin jungle. Graves bot. ban kalista/nidalee oh yeah don't play veigar ever or kass till 5.5

Eedat3/9/2015, 12:35:19 PM1 votes

If you were primarily a jungler, bad news. Jungle got nerfed super hard in season 5. Jungler viability pretty much comes down to who can survive the jungle better than others. Vi is strong. Nid is super strong. Jarvan IV was strong but just got a pretty beefy nerf recently and its hurt him a lot. Sejuani is still a god but is very underplayed. Expect people to cry about her soon and demand nerfs. Popular season 4 junglers are pretty much all dead. Lee Sin is bad, Evelyn is bad, Elise is bad. There are going to be a bunch of buffs to tanky junglers in the next patch to hopefully balance things out

Conyare3/9/2015, 2:45:21 PM1 votes

Season 5 has seen massive changes to the jungle. First of all, all the old items are gone and have been replaced by ones that change the way smite acts (Two of them let you smite champs now). Also smiting large monsters in the jungle gives you buffs. For example the bird guys give you ward vision for a time. Also Dragon and Baron buff are very different now (Dragon now no longer gives gold and instead gives a stacking buff)

Sona Ping3/9/2015, 3:36:16 PM1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Onimus Terlain,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=EOjtaY6m,comment-id=,timestamp=2015-03-09T11:51:15.392+0000) Has anything changed for the jungle?

OOOOOOOOOH BOY! Wow, are you in for a surprise.

TL;DR the patch notes or any commentary for League since October.

4.18:

Sion got a rework, he's no longer goofy zombie that you only really play for screw-around games.
Akali wrecked face when she got fed and could survive in her shroud from enemies while waiting for cooldown. Rito says no to that, and took away the defensive stats and instead altered move speed. Since Akali could still gets kills when ahead after this change, this ended up being the beginning of a long line of sequential nerfs to the point where they ran out of ideas and just started breaking parts of her kit, e.g. her E doesn't proc Q anymore, etc. She's not exactly in a great place now.
Gangplank's ult now does consistent damage. No more treating it as an AoE slow and crossing your fingers!

4.19 End of Season, PBE Summoner's Rift update moved to live.

4.20 Pre-Season General and Meta

Introduction of Growth Stats, Mana Regen changed on all champions, Mana Regen changed on all items. New recommended Items. Death Timers changed.
Towers: Inner towers now have a thin Solari Shield that is shared with nearby Champions. Base towers now use a laser that additionally slows.
Items: Sword of the Divine, Atma's Impaler, and Executioner's Calling have been removed. Added Raptor Cloak (for the delayed ZZrot Portal) and Righteous Glory *Introduction of "Strategic Diversity". This is the name of the new policy of Riot that means Riot will make changes to the game justified by improving "strategic diversity". (It's an oft repeated keyword for them) This is the reason behind changes to the jungle.

Jungle: Here we have the biggest changes and the changes to the meta

Champions that were strong in the jungle such as Lee Sin and company had too much early game aggression. Therefore, to try to nerf early aggression and low level ganks, and consequently the champions who did such. Rather than adjust the the champions, the jungle was buffed to make it harder to clear, thinking it would prevent the early the early aggression and low level ganks, opening the jungle up to more types of junglers.

What actually is happened is that by making the jungle harder to clear trying to weaken the top tier junglers, well, making the jungle harder made it harder on everybody and the best junglers stayed the best junglers, now with less competition. Nowadays, junglers are bruiser only, According to those Diamonds who comment on such things, the competitive ranked junglers are only the top tier bruisers like Lee-Sin, Jarvan IV, Rek-Sai, and Vi. And that's about it. Further changes to the jungle such as limiting the number of potions, two different price increases on machetes, two different smite buff nerfs, and reduction of soft resets have further dried up the pool of serviceable jungle picks.

SmknWdl3/10/2015, 1:26:03 AM1 votes

LeeSin LeeSin LeeSin LeeSin LeeSin LeeSin LeeSin LeeSin LeeSin LeeSin JarvanIV Warwick Warwick Warwick Warwick Warwick Warwick Warwick Warwick Warwick Warwick Warwick #season5jungle

Weasel Kensei3/10/2015, 7:22:41 AM1 votes

Ah, yes.... the meta.

Well, if you take anything other people dont think is a "proper champ for the position" then you are trolling.

If you have Clarity because you want to use it to put extra pressure on your lane, then you are trolling.

Should you buy an item others dont think you should have bought on your champ, then youre trolling.

If you dont choose champs, spells, items from the last LCS match the petulant children on your team last watched, then you are trolling.